No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets… psychiatrist, author & founder of the Coincidence Project, Bernard Beitman, MD.
When the former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia medical school reveals the story behind one of the 10 Best Spiritual books that influenced him the most on his life journey by say that a few years after his first experience with LSD in LA in the 60’s, he received a Xerox copy of Tarot cards images based on the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, cut them up to create his own deck, and then studied the connections between the card numbers, astrological signs, and Hebrew letters, you know that this is not your average psychiatrist you’ll be talking to. And the impression is further confirmed by the juicy mix of the rest his chosen titles and authors, which include Lewis Carroll, Tom Wolfe, Arthur C. Clarke, and Thomas Pinchon…
All I can say is don’t miss this week’s live streaming episode of the No BS Spiritual Book Club’s 10 Best Spiritual Books interview series with Bernard Beitman, MD who is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences. The founder of The Coincidence Project, Bernard Beitman writes a regular blog for Psychology Today on coincidence, and is the author and co-author of several publications including his latest book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Synchronicity and Serendipity Happen.
